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10 THE MARINE RECORD. Engine Cylinders | F. W. WHEELER & COMPANY, FOR SALE. BUILDERS OF ALL KINDS OF Pair of 18x34x34 stroke steeple com- Iron, Steel, ana * Wooden Ships | pound engine cylinders, complete with steam reverse link and sword arm, 6 throttle valve, exhaust shift valve, etc. Built for compounding an engine, but FOR LAKE OR OCEAN SERVICE. never used on account of change of own- ership, lack of funds, etc. For full par- ticulars address E, care of the MARINE RECORD. PROM = at West Bay City, Mich. aq F. W. WHEELER, Pres. J. S. PORTER, Treas. H. T. WICKES, Y. P. CG. W. STIVER, Sec’y. [Iron Works. MARINE ENGINES. DETROIT, MICH. WM. WILFORD’S*5>— MATCHLESS WATER-PROOF CANVAS _ The best in the market for hatch PX¢ covets, is stronger, lighter, and more $9. durable any water-proof goods yet produced, It is made of a twist- ed thread of pure flax, which renders it very strong. It will not crack like cotton goods, which is a great advan- tage See ee Ue UE Ue ee Ue Ue Ue EDWARD A. BUNKER, 29 William St., New York. Room 617 27 and Always Tight. Leaves the Stem Clean. Daal Put up in Boxes. 16=24 Woodward Ave., DETROIT, MICH. Write us for Testimonials. HERCU © BINATIEN Ae \\ ‘ i Kis Ne NY \ \\ j \ \ \ Fe hi METALLIC:SToP:‘ VALVE: PACKING Patented and [Manufactured Exclusively by PEERLESS RUBBER MFG. CO., 16 Warren Street, New York. 193=195 Bank St., CLEVELAND, O. 202-210 S. Water St., CHICAGO, ILL. NOTES. The Bethlehem Iron Company, whose advertisement ap- pears in our columns, are turning out a universally ap- proved product both in sheared and universal plates. It is now learned that Mr. E. M. Mcllvain, formerly assistant to the president and purchasing agent of the Bethlehem Iron Company, has been appointed acting general sales- agent of the company, with headquarters at South Beth- lehem, Pa. Among the prominent industries of the country may be mentioned that of the Electric-Dynamic Company, Phila- delphia. We, of course, allude principally to the indus- tries, a lamaritime, as the above firm have supplied porta- ble electric drill motors to most of the prominent ship- yards, notably, the Cramps, Newport News, Union Iron Works, rescent, Brooklyn Navy Yard, as well as com- plete electrical equipments for the American line to the St. Louis and St. Paul and other ships of the line, making a total of 22 direct coupled dynamos, aggregating about 15,000 lights. In the matter of lighting fancy tonnage such as the yachts Columbia, Thespia, Rambler, Enter- prise, and others, the Electro-Dynamic Company seem to lead in the installation, variegation of colors and general efficiency of their plants. It has recently been widely printed that the arrest and imprisonment of seamen for refusing duty or desertion during the course of a voyage has been upheld in a deci- sion of the District Court for the Northern District of California. It is but just to state that such a rendering was made by Mr. Justice Brown; but an equally eminent jurist, Mr. Justice Harlan, dissented and stated that in his judgment the holding of any person in custody, whether in jail or by an officer of the law, against his will, for the purpose of compelling him to render personal service to - another in a private business, places the person so held in custody in a condition of involuntary servitude forbidden by the Constitution of the United States; consequently that the statute as it now is, and under which the appel- lants were arrested at Astoria and placed against their will on the barkentine Arago, is null and void, and their refusal to work on such vessel, after being forcibly returned to it, could not be made a public offense, authorizing their subsequent arrest at San Francisco. I dissent from the opinion and judgment of the court. This is the first time that the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Harlan has been given that due publicity to which it is so honestly entitled. Henry R. Worthington, manufacturer of steam and electric pumping machinery, has recently received a con- tract from the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., amounting to $100,000, covering pumps for the United States battleships Kearsage, Kentucky and Illinois. They are also building pumps and pumping machitiery for the United States battleship Alabama, now being constructed by the Wm. Cramp & Sons’ Ship and Engine Building Co. The contract for the pumps for this vessel amounts to $33,000. The company have just completed and deliv- ered the hydraulic machinery for operating the turrets on the United States battleship Iowa. “They have more recently received a contract amounting to $15,000 cover- ing the pumps required for the armored cruiser being built by the Wm. Cramp & Sons’ Ship & Engine Building Co. for the Japanese government. The Yoshi-No, another Japanese cruiser, is already fitted out with a full comple- ment of Worthington pumps. The fact that with few exceptions all British and other foreign war vessels are equipped with these machines simply adds another testi- monial to the high efficiency of the Worthington Duplex Steam Pump. The finger of science points to Graphite paint as the paint of the future for the protection of all exposed iron and metal work. Prof. Cpennrath, Director of the Tech- nical School of Aix-la-Chapelle, lately won the $2,000 prize offered by the Society for the Advancement of the Industrial Arts for the best essay on Protective Paints. The prize was not won simply by theoretical demonstra- tions, although the professor furnished scientific reasons also, but by most carefully conducted practical experi- ments with various pigments and oils, covering several years’ time. The results demonstrated that a properly made paint of graphite and boiled linseed oil is the most suitable for protecting structural iron work, roofs, etc., exposed to the destructive agencies of heat, cold, storms, etc. Running parallel with these results are the facts demonstrated by those who have used Dixon’s Silica Graphite Paint during the past 30 years. Roofs and iron work properly painted with Dixon’s paint have not re- quired repainting in 15 to 20 years. As the season for painting is now close at hand it may pay those interested to write to the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, -N, J., for circulars. oo oo TACOMA COMMERCE. Harmormaster Clift makes the following report of the ocean commerce at the port of Tacoma for the month of February, 1897: Imports. Value. Merchanidse from China and Japan........ $ 613,018 85 Previously. reported cine). cs «ad ch cnsieniee stele 778,310 20 ‘Total imports: twoomonths:. ses ose ee $1,391,329 II Samespenod last yea oe cit ee ee 675,000 00 2 Increase over Jast *years . . jc die eset tans $. 716,329 11 Exports. alue. Blour; 22/420 “barrels ct oo ct osetia. ee ee $ 94,250 00 Lumber, 7,608,000: feet onc. ee eee 68,980 00 Goals: 20,113etOnse otis cinco hse ee ee 86,461 00 Wheat; 1,215 ‘bushels... i. assassins 1,033 00 Merchandise to China and Japan........... 361,653 00 Merchandise to British Columbia........... 31,710 00 Total ses eee Oe imei eee $ 644,087 00 Previously reported ich icc ss ca seca eee 599,128 67 Total-exports:two months fees. ee $1,243,215 67 Same:period last year jeviis ek ee 1,357,580 00 pea nee ey $ 114,364 33 Inward registered tonnage, 37,144; outward registered tonnage, 39,528. Inward cargo tonnage, 4,740; outward cargo tonnage, 46,470. Deep sea arrivals, 27; departures, 31, Decrease from last year